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Last night I watched a motion picture on Blu-Ray, THE WOLFMAN. It is indeed gorgeous to look at and has a very good musical score from Danny Elfman. Otherwise, it's not all that memorable. I had seen it in the theaters earlier this year, and I can honestly say that I barely remembered any of it. . .
The night before, I watched a little motion picture on dvd entitled MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY. It had Lee Pace, Amy Adams and Frances McDormand in it. It tried to hard to be funny and twee, but, didn't quite succeed.
The night before that, I watched a motion picture on dvd which was written by Neil Simon: MURDER BY DEATH. I laughed out loud quite a lot. Superb cast and wonderful Neil Simon words. Peter Falk was incredibly good looking in this film. . . .
Bookwise, I ripped through Dominick Dunne's A SEASON IN PURGATORY. (I picked it up in a free paperback exchange). I enjoyed every page. And because "the Grenville case" is mentioned several times in SEASON, I picked up THE TWO MRS. GRENVILLES to read. Also because newspaper man Gus Bailey plays a part in SEASON, I have also elected to read ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN - which is a factional account of the O. J. Simpson trial as filtered through Mr. Dunne's eyes.
I had always enjoyed reading Mr. Dunne's columns in Vanity Fair, now I'm discovering his novels.